Wondrous Words Wednesday

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This word is from SMALL GREAT THINGS by Jodi Picoult.

1. gravida – “His mother — my patient — was a thirty-year-old gravida 1 para 1 who had received prenatal care including an ultrasound, but the baby had been positioned in a way that the facial deformity hadn’t been visible.”